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Six weeks to stop making things that look amateur. We teach the boring fundamentals — type, colour, composition — that separate professional work from the rest. Then Photoshop, Canva, and a real portfolio of logos, posters, and social media work.
What this course actually teaches you.
The Graphic Design course at Digital School Nepal is built around a truth most Nepali design courses skip: software is the easy part. Anyone can click around in Photoshop and Canva. The hard part — the part that makes a poster look professional instead of homemade — is understanding the fundamentals: typography, colour theory, composition, hierarchy. So we teach those first, in week one, before you touch any software.
Over six weeks you'll build a real portfolio: a logo, a poster, a social media pack, a business card, and a brand-identity mini-project. Not exercises from a textbook — real briefs for fictional clients that look exactly like the work you'd do as a junior designer or freelancer in Nepal. By the end you have work you can show, not just certificates that say you took a course.
You will leave this course able to: design logos that scale and look intentional, lay out posters and flyers that don't look amateur, create social media graphics that match a brand's tone, choose typography and colour combinations that work together, use Adobe Photoshop confidently for photo work and layouts, use Canva efficiently for fast turnaround work, and present a portfolio of 5+ pieces ready to send to clients.
Week by week.
Design fundamentals — before any software.
- What makes design work — composition, balance, hierarchy
- Typography 101 — serif, sans, display, choosing pairs
- Colour theory — the colour wheel, complementary, palette tools
- Visual hierarchy — making the most important thing the most obvious
- Looking at good design — analysing why pieces work or don't
- Sketching exercise: design a movie poster on paper before any software
Canva — getting fast results.
- Canva interface — templates, elements, uploads
- Social media graphics — Instagram posts, stories, Facebook, LinkedIn
- Posters and flyers — print sizes, bleeds, margins
- Brand kits — saving your fonts, colours, and logos
- Templates — using and customising without making it look templated
- Project: design a social media pack (5 posts) for a fictional café
Adobe Photoshop — the basics.
- Interface, panels, tools, workspace setup
- Layers, layer masks, blending modes — the heart of Photoshop
- Photo editing — exposure, colour correction, retouching
- Background removal — the right way (not the AI-fast-easy way)
- Text in Photoshop — styles, effects, when to use Photoshop vs Illustrator
- Photo manipulation project: composite a believable image from 3 sources
Photoshop for design work.
- Designing layouts in Photoshop — when it's the right tool
- Smart objects, smart filters, non-destructive editing
- Mockups — putting your design on a phone, billboard, business card
- Exporting for print vs web — colour modes, file formats, DPI
- Working with photographers — file naming, communication
- Project: design a complete A4 poster for a fictional concert
Logo design & brand identity.
- What makes a good logo — versatile, memorable, scalable, timeless
- Logo types — wordmark, lettermark, symbol, combination
- Working in vector — basic Illustrator (or alternative) for logos
- Brand identity basics — logo + colour + type = brand
- Brand guidelines — the document every brand needs
- Major project begins: complete brand identity for a fictional Nepali brand
Portfolio & the freelance market.
- Building a portfolio — Behance, Dribbble, Instagram, personal site
- Pricing — how to charge for logos, posters, social packs in Nepal
- Finding your first clients — local networks, FB groups, Fiverr
- Working with clients — briefs, revisions, deadlines, payment
- Common mistakes that get freelancers in trouble
- Final showcase: present your complete brand identity project
This is the right course for you if…
- +2 or college students wanting a creative, employable skill
- Aspiring freelancers serving small businesses in Kathmandu
- Small business owners wanting to do their own marketing visuals
- Social media managers needing to step up their graphic skills
- Photographers wanting to expand into design
- Anyone who has tried Canva and wants to actually understand what they're doing
What you need before joining.
- Basic computer skills — comfortable using a computer and the internet
- No prior design experience needed — many of our best students start at zero
- A laptop is helpful but lab machines have Photoshop installed
- An eye for what looks good is built during the course, not required before
Taught by a working professional, not a hobbyist.
Nisha has worked as a graphic designer for eight years — first in-house at a Kathmandu advertising agency, now full-time freelance with clients across Nepal, India, and the US. Her work has appeared on book covers, restaurant menus, and one Sajha Yatayat bus advertisement she's still slightly embarrassed about. She holds a Bachelor's in Fine Arts from Lalit Kala Campus.
She believes the biggest difference between a beginner and a professional designer is not software skill — it's the fundamentals. "You can teach Photoshop in two weeks. Teaching someone to actually see — to notice why one design works and another doesn't — takes the whole course."
NPR 16,500. Six weeks. A real portfolio.
Your fee covers everything — tuition, lab access, all course materials, printed handouts, and your completion certificate. There are no extra charges, no hidden costs. Sibling and group discounts available — ask us when you enroll.